American Women — Vietnam conflict

  • Jane Fonda and the Indochina Peace Campaign in Houston

    Aircheck of an interview with Jane Fonda of the Indochina Peace Campaign, along with Bob Chenowith, a POW in North Vietnam for five years, and Jean-Pierre Debris, French school teacher arrested in South Vietnam for distributing leaflets and jailed for 2.5 years. The guests note that POWs are being kept in tiger cages in South…

  • Report from Vietnam by Judy Coburn – August 7, 1970

    This is a special report broadcast the same day as it was recorded, from Pacifica’s Saigon correspondent Judy Coburn. Coburn reports on the military situation in “I” Corps, as seen through interviews with members of Ripcord Company. This special report was broadcast immediately following the 7:00 p.m. news on WBAI on Friday, August 1, 1970,…

  • Jane Fonda: Women in Vietnam

    Part 1 of 3: Live recording of Jane Fonda speaking in San Francisco (UCSF?) week of April 10, 1973 on her recent trip to Hanoi (for several weeks in July 1972) and the position of women in North Vietnam. She witnessed bombing of Hanoi by American planes and witnessed a play based on Arthur Miller’s…

  • International report: July 9, 1975 / Frances FitzGerald on the Vietnam conflict

    Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940), acclaimed American journalist and author of Fire in the Lake (1972), is the guest on the International Report. She and host Barry Rubin discuss the Vietnam conflict and international politics.

  • Gloria Emerson on her two years in Vietnam.

    An interview with New York Times reporter Gloria Emerson, who relates her experiences in Vietnam from February 1970 to February 1972. She explains her reasons for wanting to be in Vietnam, notes that most of the American troops were working-class boys and men, and states that the anti-draft movement should have tried to influence them.…

  • Americans in Hanoi : the Taylor-Baez delegation returns / produced by Bruce Soloway.

    Four Americans were visiting Hanoi when the US began the heaviest bombing raids in the history of warfare in December, 1972. The four Americans were Telford Taylor, Professor of Law at Columbia University and Chief U.S. Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials; Joan Baez, folksinger and pacifist; Barry Romo, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW); and…

  • Jane Fonda on Vietnam: in defense of Pat Chenoweth

    Jane Fonda speaks at the University of California in Berkeley on January 29, 1973. She gives an anti-war speech at a rally for Pat Chenoweth, a soldier facing charges of mutiny in Vietnam. The tape is courtesy of the Chenoweth Defense Committee. She speaks about the Mekong Delta, Nixon’s role, and the resilience and strength…

  • Kim Pontier interview.

    Prisoner’s wife discusses the fasting of her husband and ten other anti-war prisoners from Missouri. Interviewer’s name not given on tape, recording fades out early.

  • April 22nd Coalition press conference

    This is a recording of a press conference during which various community members from the Bay Area give statements opposing the Vietnam War and specifically the bombing of Hanoi on April 16, 1972, and then give information about the demonstration being held the next day, April 22, 1972, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Larry…

  • Jane Fonda and the airmen at the gates of Travis Air Force Base / reported by Denny Smithson.

    On the morning of September 11th, 1971, actress Jane Fonda and members of her troupe, who had been scheduled to put on a show in Fairfield that weekend, held a press conference at the main gate of Travis Air Force Base to tell the public why their show had to be cancelled. Following their statements,…